What are you listening to right now?

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Respighi: Feste Romane, Strauss: Don Juan  - ZUBIN MEHTA Conducting Los Angeles Philharmonic -   First Recording in the Pavilion of Los Angeles' New Music Center

RCA Red Seal LP

What a letdown this was. First off it is paper thin 1970 oil embargo vinyl. (I put it on my postal scal and the LP wieghed about 85g.) Secondly, I don'y know if it was the cheap vinyl or just a poor recording, but this music just seemd lifeless and the performance had absolutely no sense of being played in a real concert hall. It sounded like it was done in a soundproof room. I will consider the 53 cent pricetag an audition fee and pack this album up to be sent back with all of the household stuff that is being donated to the Crack House (which is actually run by the Lupus Foundation).

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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bare Mountain - Rene' Leibowitz/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

LP

This is the same recording origiinally released by RCA as "The Power of the Orchestra". It is a great recording and performance, but it suffers here in this clearly inferior reissue. IF you want a copy of this performance stick with the original RCA Livingf Stereo orgrab one of the reissues by CLassic Records or Chesky, both of which swhow off the virtues of this album. I would recommend passing on this Quintessence pressing.

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John Cougar: Noyhin' Matters and What if it Did

LP


From his pre-Mellencamp days

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Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like a Wheel

LP

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Nino Gvetadze plays Mussorgsky

CD

Solo Piano readings of Pictures at an Exhibition and 10 other piano pieces.

Recorded and released by the Young Pianists Foundation.

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Scott Hamilton is a Good Wind Who is Blowing us no Ill

Import CD

Japanese 20 bit K2 Encoded pressing of this Concord album.

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Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 130; Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Cleveland Quartet (Orchestra) | Format: flac

Morning coffee on the deck with Ludwig. A fine recording by the Cleveland Quartet, I put them up there with the Quartetto Italiano in their interpretation of Beethoven. And as it's a Telarc disk, the SQ is 1st rate. The 'woodiness' of the instruments is readily apparent, and this is a flac rip of the actual cd.

According to the liner notes, the oldest of the 4 instruments is from 1585, the 'newest' from 1783, I wonder what insurance is like for these instruments? I'd be too afraid to even hold them for fear I'd damage them somehow with my 'meatpaws'.

[tmazz]

According to the liner notes, the oldest of the 4 instruments is from 1585, the 'newest' from 1783, I wonder what insurance is like for these instruments? I'd be too afraid to even hold them for fear I'd damage them somehow with my 'meatpaws'.

And how many times do we hear news reports about somebody leaving a vintage instrament like this in a cab? 

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George Shearing ~ Bossa Nova

    LP

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Putting on an old favorite 

[allenzachary]

Putting on an old favorite 

Crimson without the King

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Putting on an old favorite 

Is that the same girl in both pics? The hussy!

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Where the Wild Things Are
Steve Vai | Format: Vinyl

Trying S. V. one more time.

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The Crossing
Big Country | Format: Vinyl


Best of the 'one hit wonders' from Scotland. And there were a few.

[jsaliga]

Best of the 'one hit wonders' from Scotland. And there were a few.

They may have only had one hit single but Big Country had a number of excellent albums.  You might want to give Steeltown, Why the Long Face, and Driving to Damascus a try.

--Jerome